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NBA Playoffs snack: Rockets Silence Warriors' offensive in the fourth quarter, Force Game 7

NBA Playoffs snack: Rockets Silence Warriors' offensive in the fourth quarter, Force Game 7

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The Houston Rockets disabled the offensive of the Golden State Warriors and Star Steph Curry in the fourth quarter to win the game 6 and even the playoff series of the Western Conference on Friday evening.

Houston had a lead of 86-84 into the fourth quarter and made a goal. The Rockets won 115-107.

Golden State entered 3-2 in the series and could have completed them on Friday with a win at home in the Chase Center. Instead, the steamed crowd began to end in the arena before the end of the game when Curry was sitting on the bench and frustrated her head.

The series returns to Houston on Sunday to do a game 7. The winner will compete against the Minnesota Timberwolves in the second round.

Rockets 115, Warriors 107

(Series 3-3)

Rockets rise as an opportunity

In six games, the Rockets saw almost every possible game from the Warriors. You have experienced a curry classic. You saw a Jimmy Butler classic. Both curry and Butler have raised the occasion and have a lot of struggle. This team even succumbed to big nights from role players such as Buddy Hield and Brandin Podziemski.

With game 6 there were no more surprises for Houston. On Friday evening it was all about the spirit about matter. Which team would be victorious in an elimination game: either the rockets that extend their season, or the Warriors who overwhelm with experience?

Fred Vanvleet, who again cited Houston with 29 points, has established itself as a playoff riser in this ecosystem, and this team will need the best version of it to come to the future.

But the biggest winner this evening was the Rockets ball movement. The pressure of the Golden State was an important part of this series with its ability to form between defensive covers. After Houston's victory in game 5, coach IMe Udoka said that his team turned around a corner and gained a deep understanding of what the Warriors would throw on them.

Regardless of whether it was Jabari Smith Jr., who was a “zone breaker” with its size and shooting ability, the physicality in the middle or in the all-round IQ, the rockets found success to move the ball from one side to another. After three quarters, Houston had made 21 templates on 27 Field Gates, an impressive performance against a team, which hoped that isolation basketball would pose their violation.

The rockets stood in the combination of curry and Butler and led most of the evening. It stood in the hack-an adams strategy, which forced Udoka's hand in earlier games. Her defense, which the warriors organized in over seven minutes in the fourth quarter without a field gate, was again elite on the largest stage.

Now the ultimate game 7 is expecting the rockets enough to pull off the notorious 3: 1 comeback? If impulse is an indicator, it is impossible. – Kelly Iko, Rockets Beat Writer

What happened to the Golden State's crime?

With their individual chance to end this first round at home against the Rockets, the Warriors 14 of their first 15 shots in the fourth quarter-a dark offensive end of a potentially catastrophic loss for an organization that tries to compete with another title from curry age.

Four days ago, the Warriors had complete control over this series. They were 3-1 back with a humpel Jimmy Butler who returned to play the hero of Game 4. They then went to Houston without an urgent mentality, stumbled away a game and then returned home to be beaten by a younger Rockets team that grew.

The defense in this series was the strength of the warriors. That has disappeared. They gave up in the last three quarters of the 6th game 28, 33 and 29 points after having only 30 points touched in the first 16 quarters of the series in the first 16 quarters. The warriors have to find out their sudden defensive problems.

But a crime is the bigger problem. Houston has hindered her with a double Big Big set, which often turns into zone defense. This has opened to a number of untreated Perimeter passes, desperate and controversial curry jumpers (he went on Friday with 9 of 23) or open misses from the other warriors who got cold. The non-Kurr starter went 3 out of 18 out of 3 in game 6.

The warriors have been here before. She brought her rich playoff story into almost every scenario. They only gave a 3-1 lead in the NBA final in 2016, but they also lost a 2023 game 6 against the Sacramento Kings at home and then took to win game 7. Curry had 50 points that day.

Curry may need somewhere near a repetition for the Warriors to save this series and season in Houston. – Anthony Slater, Warriors Senior Writer

(Photo: Ezra Shaw / Getty Images)

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